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Prosecutor Calls To Legislate For Tougher Penalties
Prosecutors believe the legislature needs tougher penalties for predators caught in internet stings, so that they go to prison.
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Microsoft to cut price of Xbox 360 to $406
LOS ANGELES - MICROSOFT plans to cut the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model by US$50 (S$68), to US$299 (S$406) in the next few weeks, the Hollywood Reporter reported citing anonymous sources.
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EBay Ordered to Pay $61 Million in Sale of Counterfeit Goods
The luxury giant LVMH for the second time successfully challenged eBay in a French court, arguing that 90 percent of the Louis Vuitton bags and Dior perfumes sold on eBay are fakes.
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Apple notebook sales grow 61% from year ago
DisplaySearch has published its latest quarterly Notebook PC Shipment and Forecast Report, which shows that the notebook PC market grew 35% year over year in the first quarter of 2008 to 31 million units. Apple, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo all significantly outpaced the year over market growth, with Apple posting 61 percent unit growth from 891,000 u...
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A free Symbian helps Google
The cell-phone maker's choice to eventually give away its smartphone software will mean more mobile Web use--and more Google search ads. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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Letters: Contraception and online access
Letters: While women should have access to a full choice of contraceptive methods, buying the pill on the internet presents huge risks
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Worlds first systems analyst dies
David Caminer, a pioneer of commercial computing, has died at the age of 93.
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Microsoft Pumps Your Gas
News Brief. I've heard Windows Vista called a gas guzzler, which pumps a little irony into Microsoft's newest contest....
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EBay ordered to pay £31m damages over fake goods
THE internet auction house eBay has been ordered to pay £31 million in damages for selling fakes over the internet, in a ruling that could have important implications for on
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'Children at risk' from bank's Visa card
CHILDREN as young as 11 are being given debit cards which allow them to buy goods such as cigarettes and Viagra over the internet, without their parents' permission.
The Scotsman |
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Online lawyers' sales surge 24%
SALES at PSM Direct, the internet-based Scottish law firm, have risen by 24 per cent in the first quarter, compared with the same period last year.
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Recent Original Stories
"Opera Software filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers. The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Mar 2007 00:24 UTC, submitted by Jamie
" Earlier this month I covered Ubuntu's Migration Assistant, which is one of the features that will be found in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. The migration-assistant is designed to make it very easy for Microsoft Windows converts to jump into the Ubuntu world by automatically transferring files and settings.
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Signage appliances run XPe
— Jun. 20, 2008 — DT Research has announced three "signage appliances" designed to run the company's digital signage software using Windows XP Embedded (XPe).
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white papers
Salesforce is developing an e-commerce engine, but only "native" applications need apply. Taking its nascent relationship with Google one step closer, Salesforce announced Monday that it has released a toolkit for working with Google's data services APIs (application programming interfaces).
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Salesforce's e-commerce engine favoring 'native' apps
Salesforce is developing an e-commerce engine called Force.com Checkout, but for now only "native" applications that are built on its Force.com development platform -- as opposed to ones developed with other tools and then integrated with Salesforce -- can join the pilot program.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Nov 2006 19:08 UTC, submitted by Neti
"I had a few minutes to burn today, so I did what I'm sure you were doing: I read the Oracle Enterprise Linux Services Agreement. It's funny what you find when you start digging around in the legalese that governs the Big Announcement that Oracle made.
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Eco centre monitors used TVs
OLD television sets and computer monitors can now be disposed of in an environmentally safe way, thanks to an Eaglehawk Eco Centre concept.
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As seen on a bright screen
CONSUMERS' appetite for online shopping showed little sign of wavering yesterday as internet fashion retailer ASOS doubled profits and posted healthy sales. ASOS, which st
The Scotsman: Business |
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CBS Closes CNET Acquisition
CBS Corporation announced Monday that it has completed its acquisition of CNET Networks, Inc. and merged its operations into a newly expanded CBS Interactive division. The new division incorporates all of the premium online brands of both CBS and CNET Networks into one business unit.
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Linux robot plays frenetic clarinet
— Jun. 20, 2008 — [Updated: Jun. 23, 2008] -- Australian research group NICTA and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have developed a clarinet-playing robot that runs Linux.
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Latest Issue
Korg announce the nanoSeries, a range of three slim-line USB-powered MIDI controllers: nanoKEY, nanoPAD and nanoKONTROL. ... It's not often that music software plug-ins make the press, but we found this article from the Arts and Culture section of The New Yorker on - predictably enough – AutoTune worthwhile thanks to some interesting background info on AutoTune’s creator and...
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Verizon's LG Dare Full Review (Verdict: Best iClone Yet) [Cellphones]
"Dare to be different," the saying goes, but the LG Dare is really Verizon Wireless's attempt to fit in, to offer a phone that's more like the AT&T LG Vu and Sprint Samsung Instinct, not to mention...
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Closing Glance: Internet software, services stocks
Internet software and services stocks finished mostly lower Monday, while the overall market ended mixed after oil reached a new record of $143 a barrel and then pulled back to close at $140 a barrel.
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Jabil Circuit is top IT gainer in S&P 500 in 2Q
Buoyed by a strong fiscal third-quarter report, electronic parts manufacturer Jabil Circuit Inc.'s shares gained more in the second quarter than other information technology companies in the S&P 500.
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